| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | United States |
| Mother Mary | Sergey Kolosov | Soviet Union |
| Deseti brat | Vojko Duletič | Socialist Republic of Slovenia |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
| A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov | Nikita Mikhalkov | Soviet Union |
| Pogonya v stepi | Abdulla Karsakbayev | Soviet Union |
| Întoarcerea lui Voda Lapusneanu | Malvina Urșianu | Romania |
| The Message | Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton | Libya, Morocco |
| The 36th Chamber of Shaolin | Lau Kar-leung | Hong Kong |
| 21 Hours at Munich | William A. Graham | Germany |
| Fourth Height | Igor Voznesensky | Soviet Union |
| Kazimierz Wielki | Czesław Petelski, Ewa Petelska | Polish People's Republic |
| Gilgames | András Rajnai | Hungary |
| The Day That Shook the World | Veljko Bulajić | Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
| The Dam Busters | Michael Anderson | United Kingdom |
| Privalov's Millions | Yaropolk Lapshin | Soviet Union |
| Hot Snow | Gabriel Egiazarov | Soviet Union |
| The Dawns Here Are Quiet | Stanislav Rostotsky | Soviet Union |
| A Marcha | Oswaldo Sampaio | Brazil |
| Officers | Vladimir Rogovoy | Soviet Union |
| The Emigrants | Jan Troell | Sweden |
| The Ballad of Bering and His Friends | Yuri Shvyryov | Soviet Union |
| Shine, Shine, My Star | Alexander Mitta | Soviet Union |
| An-Magritt | Arne Skouen | Norway |
| The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Germany, Italy |
| The Sixth of July | Yuli Karasik | Soviet Union |
| Witchfinder General | Michael Reeves | United Kingdom |
| Sofiya Perovskaya | Lev Arnshtam | Soviet Union |
| No Password Necessary | Boris Grigoryev | Soviet Union |
| Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island | Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union |
| Balzaminov's Marriage | Konstantin Voinov | Soviet Union |
| Northern Story | Yevgeni Andrikanis | Soviet Union |
| Time of Taiga Snowdrop | Yaropolk Lapshin | Soviet Union |
| The Eagle | Leonard Buczkowski | Poland |
| Kiev Resident | Timofei Levchuk | Soviet Union |
| Love Along a River | Toivo Särkkä | Finland |
| Nero and the Burning of Rome | Primo Zeglio | Italy |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union, Albania |
| The Anna Cross | Isidore Annenski | Soviet Union |
| The Gorgon | Guido Brignone | Italy |
| Masquerade | Sergei Gerasimov | Soviet Union |
| South of Pago Pago | Alfred Edward Green | United States |
| The King's Prisoner | Carl Boese | Germany |
| Shirin and Farhad | Abdolhossein Sepanta | Iran |
| Amerikanka | Leonard Esakia | Georgian SSR |
| The Last Roman God | — | Croatia |
| Red Rain | Đặng Thái Huyền | Vietnam |